Arch supporter



C. E. CHASE.

ARCH SUPPQRTER. APPLICATION Ymin APR.1.1921.

Patented Feb. 14, 1922.

COPPER ZINC Cif-.67709652 UNITED STATES PATENT oFrlcs.

CLARENCE E. CHASE, 0F HABLAN, KENTUCKY.

ARCH SUPPORTER.

Application filed April '7,

To all ywhom t may concern:

Be itflrnown that l, CLARENCE E. CHASE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Harlan, in the county of Harlan and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Arch Supporters, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to arch supporters and has for an object to provide a supporter presenting physical novelty in relation to Ventilating the foot of the user.

A further object of the invention is to provide an arch supporter which in addition to properly supporting the foot of the user will generate galvanic current for acting upon the foot.

rl. further object of the invention is to provide an arch supporter having a combination of metals of different electrostatic properties, whereby a galvanic current is produced by the action of the acids of perspiration thereon.

lith these and other objects in view the invention comprises certain novel parts, elements, combinations, functions and attributes as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a view of the improved support in top plan, parts being broken away to show the internal construction;

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional View through the arch supporter, as indicated by line 2-2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 av transverse sectional view through the supporter as indicated by line 3 3 of Figure 1, and y Figure 4; is a perspective view of the several metallic parts which are combined within the casing.

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The present invention is a supporter to be placed within a shoe and having a yielding curvature for engaging under and supporting the arch of the foot. In the present instance, the device comprises a casing preferably made of leather having an under sheet 10 and a top sheet 11. Between the two sheets a plurality of metallic members are inserted comprising one or more springs 12 and a zinc plate 13. The springs 12 will vary according to the weight of the person Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 14, 1922.

1921. serial No. 459,215.

for whom the device is constructed and while two have been shown, it is obvious that the device will be operative with more or less of such members. rlhe several metallic plates are similarly curved and provided with registering perforations 14. The laminated plates 12 and 13 will be inserted between the layers l() and 11 of the covering and copper rivets 15 will be inserted through the openings 14 and through the cover members 11 and l2 and upset upon both sides or otherwise to maintain the said plates in superposed relation and between the covering members. A row of stitching 16 will be formed aroundthe plates 12 and 13 as nearly adjacent the edges of such plates as convenient to assist in holding said plates against movement between the layers 10 and 11.

A bowed extension 17 will be provided curved upwardly, as indicated, to form a curved flange for the support of the inside of the arch of the foot, and the two layers 10 and 11, when combined in such integral structure by cement or other adhesive material, will be skived at the edges, as indicated at 18, such skiving being necessary only at the forward end and at the side of the flange.

A plurality of perforations 19 are preferably formed through the heel portion of the supporter and other perforations 2O alongside the springs, forming communication between the top of the supporter and the space under the springs.

The curvature of the springs, as indicated at Figures 2 and e is only shown as indicative of curvature and not as indicating the necessary curvature of the device, the metal parts being curved. as may be required to lit the individual feet. The flange 17 likewise will be curved or will curve itself more or less to correspond to the shape of the shoe and the foot. In other words, the device is intended to be shaped to the foot of the wearer and the requirements of curvature of the arch, and anything herein shown or described as to outline of curvature is intended as no limitation upon the invention.

It is obvious that at each step of the wearer the metal parts 12 and 13 will be depressed, reducing the space beneath the curved portion and pumping air through the perforations 19 and 20 to ventilate the foot. Also the copper rivets 15 extending up to and flush Y with the upper surface of the sheet 11 will come in direct contact with the foot or the hosiery, which will be moistened 10 said members, said battery including a plurality of rivets adapted to hold all said nien1- bers together and to function as a metallic electrolytic clement in said battery.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CLARENCE E. CHASE.

Witnesses: i

WT. D. RAGSDALE, E. A. TAUG. 

